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LUCKNOW: BSP leader Intezaar Ahmad Abdi, allegedly involved in the arson at UP Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi's house here, has been appointed the chairman of state sugar corporation by the Mayawati government, a move that has invited the ire of the Congress. Abdi's appointment as the chairman of Ganna Sansthan, a post equivalent to the rank of Minister of State, had been cleared and an order to this effect was issued last evening, official sources said on Monday.

LUCKNOW: One of Mayawati's most-trusted officers and a prominent Dalit face, retired IPS officer Brij Lal, is all set to join BJP in Lucknow on Wednesday. Brij Lal had sterling career and rose to become the state's DGP during Mayawati's regime. Lal was Mayawati's trusted officer. He was first made additional director-general of law and order and later the state DGP. He also enjoyed the confidence of former UP chief minister Kalyan Singh and is known as an effective administrator.

LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati has firmly ruled out any alliance with either the Congress, BJP or the Third Front before or after the elections. She said her party will contest alone in the upcoming assembly polls in five states and the next Lok Sabha polls. Mayawati said the crowds at BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's rallies were just ticket seekers and not indicative of his popularity. She said the trio of LK Advani-Modi-Rajnath Singh was undercutting each other and this internal tussle will help the BSP .

LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati will address two elections meetings in Haryana tomorrow. The first meeting of Mayawati will be held at a ground in front of Kabir hostel, Rajgarh road in Hisar district, while the second meeting will be at HUDA Gymkhana Club ground at Sector 29 in Gurgaon, a party release issued here said. BSP had kick-started its election campaign on March 22 from Ranchi in Chhatisgarh and on March 23 the party chief had addressed a rally in Bhubaneshwar, Orrisa.

LUCKNOW: A BSP-BJP-RLD coalition government headed by Mayawati was on Friday sworn-in in Uttar Pradesh. Mayawati, the 45-year-old former teacher and leader of the Bahujan Samaj Party, was sworn in as thousands of supporters chanted praise in Lucknow. Mayawati won her third term as Chief Minister in a coalition government with the BJP that leads India's government. Two months of deal-making had followed the February elections, which had left no party with a majority of the state legislature.

LUCKNOW: Demanding arrest of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati for allegedly showing disrespect to Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel, Samajwadi party today staged statewide protests and submitted memoranda to the Governor in this regard. "The way in which Mayawati showed disrespect to Patel by dismantling his statue in Pratapgarh district was not acceptable to the party. We demand arrest of Mayawati and local DM and SP," party state president Shivpal Singh Yadav told reporters here.

LUCKNOW: It is not just the Samajwadi Party which has been cosying up to the Congress led UPA government at the centre, but even the Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati. On Wednesday, Congress general secretary Rajiv Shukla met former Chief Minister Mayawati in the state capital and sought her signatures on the nomination papers of UPA's presidential nominee Pranab Mukherjee. Earlier Mayawati had announced BSP's support to Pranab Mukherjee on June 15. Speaking to the media on Wednesday she said that all her party MLA and MPs in UP and other states would vote for the former finance minister to become President.

NEW DELHI: BJP today demanded a thorough probe into alleged dubious financial transactions by companies allegedly owned by BSP chief Mayawati's brother and questioned government's intentions on the issue in view of the support extended to it by her party. "BJP demands that action be taken against companies owned by Mayawati's brother," BJP Spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said in the wake of allegations of questionable financial transaction worth crores of rupees against companies allegedly owned by Mayawati's brother Anand Kumar . "It was suggested that his relationship with the Chief Minister was being unfairly and illegally exploited," said Sitharaman.

MEERUT: In a scathing attack on Narendra Modi , BSP chief Mayawati today said if he became the Prime Minister , the country would become vulnerable to communal riots. "BJP has announced such a person as its PM candidate who, being the Chief Minister of Gujarat, brought his state in the grip of communal riots in 2002. "If a person like him becomes the Prime Minister, communal riots can take place in the country any day and the nation will be destroyed," Mayawati said while addressing a rally for Meerut and Bijnore parliamentary seats at Hapur Road here.

ORAI: Coming down heavily on the Congress, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and BSP supremo Mayawati today alleged the maximum black money in foreign banks was that of Congress leaders. Addressing an election meeting here, she dared Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her party's general secretary Rahul Gandhi to make public names of those having accounts in the foreign banks. Both did nothing to bring back the black money stashed abroad, Mayawati said.